Understanding of Society Assessment 2 – Essay Plan, 500 words, 10%. This Essay Plan (Step 1 or Assessment 2) is based on the essay questions for Assessment 3 (Essay (Step 2) see below). Please pick one question from the list below and provide the following information: Structure to the Essay Plan: Introduction In the Introduction: in two to three sentences state what the argument of your essay is (no more than three sentences). This will be closely linked to your chosen question, so look for the key terms in the question. BODY In the body of your essay plan: Write three key points that you plan to base your argument(s) on. This is where you draw on the key terms you identified in the introduction. Please write each point within no more than two sentences. These sentences are called your topic sentences. *After each topic sentence, provide two to three examples from what you have researched/plan to research to support your argument. Within this section you can use quotes, paraphrased texts from your reading, statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics as well as references to the media. Please ensure that you reference all material. For example: Key point – topic sentence 1 Support of point: Quote from reference A + ABS information Key point – topic sentence 2 Support of point: ideals from reference A+C, media reference A Key point – topic sentence 3 Support of point: Quote from reference B, ideas from reference A CONCLUSION Provide your ideas of what the conclusion of your essay might be. You cannot write/finalise a Conclusion until the body of your essay has been written, but you can give some indication – in two to three sentences – of what you believe might be the concluding summary of your essay. This section must be linked to both the key arguments/terms you identify in the Introduction and linked to the proposed Key points/topic sentences in the Body. Marking Criteria and Standards: Your essay plan will be assessed on the criteria of: • critical assessment of issues • critical understanding of the sociological issues involved • synthesis and mastery of material • writing standard (including spelling, grammar and expression) • presentation (including adequate and appropriate referencing of sources) A3 Assessment ESSAY (STEP 2) (1,500 words) Worth: 30% This assignment must be submitted online via Turnitin only (i.e. no hard copies). By submitting your assignment to Turnitin you will be certifying that: • I hold a copy of this assignment if the original is lost or damaged; • No part of this assignment has been copied from any other student's work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made in the assignment; • No part of the assignment has been written for me by any other person/s; • I have complied with the specified word length for this assignment; • I am aware that this work may be reproduced and submitted to plagiarism detection software programs for the purpose of detecting possible plagiarism (which may retain a copy on its database for future plagiarism checking) A3 Description Following from step 1. Continue with the question that you have picked from the below list of questions and that you have received feedback on from your essay plan. Incorporate the feedback from your tutor into your full essay. Please note, you are NOT allowed to change your question at this point. Your essay must be on the same question that you wrote your essay plan on. You MUST make reference (i.e. mention the articles and/or books in the body of the text) to the citations presented within this assessment. You must find at least four academic articles, book or book chapters to refer to. You can find this source through the library resources (on‐line or hard copy) or through scholar.google.com (DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA OR GOOGLE) Please find below of list of 15 quotes. There are 6 quotes from sociologists on sociology, and 9 from public figures on society. For your essay, choose one of these 15 quotes, and discuss it using sociological terms and theories that you have been exposed to as part of the unit 'Understanding Society'. You can agree or disagree with these statements but you must engage with the content of this unit to discuss sociologically one of these quotes. This essay is not about writing your opinion on one of these statements, but on how you can use sociological tools of analysis to discuss/explain it. Use your textbook and at least 4 academic references (e.g. from your unit outline or from Google Scholar) to unpack your sociological argument. Make sure to explain in your introduction what you aim to achieve in your essay, and give your answer in the conclusion. You may use 1 or 2 key examples from your everyday life (make sure to write about it in an academic format) and/or from the news (please bear in mind that a newspaper article does not count as an academic paper) to illustrate and/or develop your argument. Quotes on Sociology: The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden (Pierre Bourdieu) I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self‐defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks. (Pierre Bourdieu) My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.' (Sam Richards) The modern world offers less moral cohesion than earlier societies did. (Emile Durkheim) People's minds and their conceptions of themselves are shaped by their social experiences. (George Herbert Mead) The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society." That is its task and its promise. (C. Wright Mills) Quotes on Society: What's done to children, they will do to society. (Karl A. Menninger) I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them ‐ because of circumstances beyond their control. (Q'orianka Kilcher) People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. (Vince Lombardi) To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. (Theodore Roosevelt) I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. (Tupac Shakur) I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. (Mahatma Gandhi) Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. (Simone de Beauvoir) The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves. (Matthew Quick) In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work. (Jed S. Rakoff) You should construct your assignment so that all the assessment criteria are adequately covered. The assessment criteria are intended as indicators only, and they are not added up to make your final mark. Further, the categories are not equally important. The essay should demonstrate your capacity to develop a sociological argument in response to the question. Your material must be relevant to the question and draw on the themes and issues of the course. Make sure to incorporate the feedback from your essay plan into the full essay. Make sure you demonstrate that you understand the central concepts used. You can do this either by giving definitions (do this only with difficult or very important technical words) or by using the concepts in such a way that demonstrates that you know what they mean. Make sure you talk about these concepts in tutorials ‐ ask if they mean what you think they mean. Read and refer to relevant material in the subject outline. Lectures, tutorials and general sociology sources should also guide you to relevant issues and readings. You may need to search the library or the Internet for extra references. Makes sure that the points you make are relevant and illustrate the argument of your essay. The essay should be clearly organised so that it develops an argument. You must have an introductory paragraph that states the aim of the essay and outlines the structure of the argument. The points made in one paragraph should follow on from the previous paragraph and lead into the next one. You should have a conclusion that summarises your main points. Clear expression is an important part of a clear argument. Attention to grammar, syntax and style will assist in clarifying what you are endeavouring to say to the reader. Try reading it aloud or ask someone to read it for you. Spelling and punctuation are also important; you should use a dictionary (and your spell check) regularly. Use the Harvard system of referencing as described in the Student Handbook. Plagiarism is a punishable offence; reference both direct quotes and when you use other people's ideas. You also must have a bibliography (or Reference List). Search the library or the Internet for extra references. (Avoid google or wikipedia, make use of scholar.google and the various e‐resources the library holds). You must have a 4cm left margin and use a 12 point font with double spacing or at least one and a half spacing. Number the pages and provide an approximate word count. Essays must be typed. 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